The guide (PDF)
The comprehensive, agent-oriented guide: what UM is for a builder, the 60-second mental model, the build-now-vs-prepare decision, and Produce / Consume / Verify.
Agent Integration Kit
A version-aware kit for people building with AI agents. Plug Universal Manifest in now, or prepare for it as the spec keeps improving. Everything here is a map to the canonical specification, examples, and conformance suite — not a second copy — so it stays correct as the standard moves. For the concept first, start with how it works.
The comprehensive, agent-oriented guide: what UM is for a builder, the 60-second mental model, the build-now-vs-prepare decision, and Produce / Consume / Verify.
A thin, version-aware skill you can hand to your agents. It routes them to the bundled guide and a version index, then to the version-resolved canonical sources.
The single switch that makes the kit version-aware. Every spec, schema, example, and conformance link in the guide and skill resolves through it.
Build now — stable v0.3
The stable published reference is safe to build on today. Pin to v0.3 when stability matters.
Follow head — current v0.4
The latest alias serves v0.4. Its Base is production-candidate, while advanced and optional areas keep their preview labels. Do not treat this as a stable replacement for v0.3 unless your integration can absorb those labels.
Prepare for — preview-marked areas
Preview-marked v0.4 areas are for forward-compatibility, prototypes, and working-group feedback. They are shaping:
If you build on RP1 or an MSF-style spatial fabric, Universal Manifest is a companion, not a replacement. The fabric does live scope traversal; UM is the portable, signed, consented envelope for the parts of a subject that must survive outside a single runtime session. The guide’s integration index highlights the RP1 lane.
RP1 Agent Build Pack
Equip an implementation agent with the RP1-specific README, start prompt, skill zip, public source bundle, and pack metadata. This surface does not launch or manage a public agent task.
Use-case lane
The RP1 spatial-fabric page explains where UM ends and RP1 begins, then points to the same verified files the build pack exposes for agents and builders.